Bottle holder and carrier



April 8, 947. M. w. BOWERSOX BOTTLE HOLDER AND CARRIER Filed Aug. 28, 1944 FIG. 1 0

ZS INVENR. 24 .MCU'YM WBoWemox m %iw ATTORNEY Patented Apr. 8, 1947 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 2,418,571 BOTTLE HOLDER AND CARRIER Marvin W. Bowersox, Wichita, Kans.

Application August 28, 1944, Serial No. 551,525 r 1 Claim. 1

My invention relates to a bottle carrier device. The object of the device is to' provide a device in which several bottles may be carried at one time. A further object is to provide a carrier of the kind mentioned that the bottles can be easily and quickly placed therein and the carrier has means therein to bind and hold the bottles so that they will not rattle as they are being carried. A still further object is to provide a carrier of the kind mentioned that is sim;le, and can be made of a minimum amount of material and pieces and can therefore be cheaply and quickly assembled. A still further object is to provide a carrier of the kind mentioned that affords ample room for rather spacious or elaborate advertising. These and other objects will be more fully described as this description progresses.

Now referring to the accompanying drawings:

iFig. 1 is a top plan view of my improved carr er.

1 Fig. 2 is a side view of my improved bottle carr er.

-Fig. 3 is an end view of my improved bottle carrier.

Fig. 4 is a longitudinal sectional view of my improved bottle carrier, the view being taken along the line IV-IV in Fig. 1 and looking in the direction of the arrows.

Fig. 5 is a fragmentary detail view of the upper central outside portion of the end of the bottle carrier.

Fig. 6 is a vertical detail sectional View through the central portion of Fig. 5.

Fig. 7 is a fragmentary detail inside View of a modified form of the upper central end portion of the bottle carrier.

Fig. 8 is a vertical detail sectional view through the central portion of Fig. '7.

Similar numerals of reference designate the same parts throughout the several figures of the drawings.

In the drawings is shown my improved bottle carrier as having a side element ID, the ends of Which are bent as at H and 12 to form one half i3 and M of the end portions of the holder, and an opposite side element i5, the ends of which are bent as at it and I1 to form the other one half l8 and :9 of the end portions of the holder. The holder is provided with a bottom element 20, the ends of which are bent upwardly as at 2! and 22 to form additional end portions 23 and 24 of the holder. The longitudinal edges of all the elements above mentioned are turned and tightly folded against their respective body element as 2 indicated at 25 for stiffening and strengthening their respective element.

The holder is assembled by abutting the end elements l3 and I8, and M and I9 together and then placing the end portion 23 behind the joint between the end portions l3 and i8, and the nd portions 24 behind the end portions l4 and I9 and across the joint therebetween, and then welding; preferably spot welding as at 26 the ends l4 and [9 to the end portion 24, and the end portions I3 and it to the end portion 23 to form a bottle holder having two sides and ends, a bottom that is spaced well below the lower edges of the sides and ends, the bottom being-much narrower than the space between the sides l0 and I5 of the holder. The sides I0 and I5 of the holder being spaced far enough apart that two bottles indicated by the dotted circles :r and y may be set between the sides I0 and I5 and leave a small space therebetween for purposes that will later be explained. The ends of the holder are spaced far enough apart that two or more, preferably three, bottles may be positioned therebetween and a portion of the bottom of each bottle will rest on the bottom element 20 of the holder as shown.

In the ends of the bottle holder at the center thereof and adjacent the top edge of the holder is a hole 21, the material therefrom being turned inwardly to form a bimaterial lip 28 projecting inwardly at the top of the hole 21 to form a bearing for a. flexible element 29 that is preferably a piece of leather, that is passed through the holes 21 in either end of the holder and then looped upwardly with the ends 29a. and 2% overlapping each other as shown in Fig. 1. Each. end 29a and 29b is rigidly fastened to the adjacent portion of the flexible element 29 by means of a wire clip or clamp 30. The overlapping of the ends 29a and 291) provides a double thick portion that provides a comfortable hand hold as well as a secure means of fastening the ends of the element 29 together. a

In Figures '7 and 8 is'shown a modification of the elements shown in Figures 5 and 6. In this instance the metal around the hole 21a is countersunk so as to provide an inwardly extending bimaterial flange 28a around the hole 21a to form a bearing element for the strap 29 similar to the lip 28 shown in Fig. 6.

To place the bottles in the holder the lower portion of the strap 29 may be raised or pushed upwardly and then the bottles may be placed in the holder in the position indicated by the dotted lines, then by picking up the holder by the dou- 3 bled handle portion the lower strap portion will crowd in between the bottles and bind the bottles between the sides of the holder and the strap so the bottles will not rattle or be loose in the holder as the outfit is being carried.

Such modifications of my invention may be employed as lie Within the scope of the appended claim without departing from the spirit and intention of the invention. Now having fully shown and described my invention, what I claim is:

In a bottle holder of the kind described; said bottle holder comprising a pair of U-shaped pieces set with the ends of the legs of the U engaging each other to form a rectangular shaped side and end closure for receiving bottles, a third U-shaped element, said third U-shaped element being positioned at ninety degrees to the first said U-shaped elements, the legs of the third said U- shaped element overlapping the joint between the legs of the first said U-shaped elements and being, rigidly attached to the legs of the first said U-shaped elements, a combination handle and bottle separator element, said handle and bottle separator element being a flexible piece of material, said flexible piece of material being passed 4 through the upper edge of the end walls at the center thereonand the ends of the flexible element being lapped past each other and rigidly attached to the adjacent portion of the flexible element to form a double portion for a hand hold of the handle, the central portion of the flexible element being spaced above the bottom and below the top edge of the holder to act as a separator for bottles positioned in the holder.

- MARVIN W. BOWERSOX.

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